Although Democrats are out of power in D.C., anxious Illinoisans want lawmakers to step up to block Donald Trump initiatives.

A six-month spending bill advanced in the Senate after Democrats split on the bill. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Shumer, D-NY ...

The Senate voted to advance a spending bill to fund the government through Sept. 30, narrowly avoiding a government shutdown.

The spending measure, which passed the House earlier in the week, was presented to the Senate as a take-it-or-leave-it ...

Ill., joined nine other Democratic senators in voting to allow the measure to proceed for a final vote on Friday. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., voted against it, saying she refuses to give Trump ...

President Trump assailed in biblical terms the “weaponization” of the Justice Department under his predecessor, Joseph R. Biden Jr., saying during a meandering speech in the Great Hall of the ...

After a 54-46 vote, the measure now heads to Trump to sign into law hours before government funding was set to lapse.

The Senate on Friday narrowly averted a government shutdown at midnight, passing a GOP-written stopgap spending measure after ...

The Democratic Party appears fractured as a torrent of frustration and anger has been unleashed on Senate Democratic Leader ...

Dem Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, a leading figure in the Trump opposition, sparks 2028 speculation with news that he will ...

Flags engender such loyalty and pride, they often become very personal emblems with quirky or quaint nicknames: Old Glory, ...